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Convertion of AS/400 spool file to PDF

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ccc

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Feb 7, 2001, 7:08:08 AM2/7/01
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Hello,
Does anyone know how to convert a AS/400 spool file to a PDF file?
I am using the Acrobat Distiller on a Win98 based PC connecting to
AS/400 throgh TCP/IP as a client. When I print the AS/400 spool file
to the Acrobat Distiller printer, the whole process seems ok except the
printing job never end. But when I hold the printing action manually
(by using the WRKSPLF command), The Acrobat window will pop-up
and show me the converted PDF file. It seems the AS/400 does not
send an end-of-file signal to the PC. Can anyone give me some suggestion?


Jeffrey Silberberg

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Feb 7, 2001, 11:33:16 AM2/7/01
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Look at http://www.export-ventures.com/ they have a good product, but it
only
works with standard output not AFP/IPDS support....


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Barry L. Kline

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Feb 7, 2001, 11:51:47 AM2/7/01
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I like Gumbo Software's Product Spool-a-matic. www.gumbo.com

Barry

Bradley V. Stone

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Feb 7, 2001, 1:11:14 PM2/7/01
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Give my SPLTOOL product a try. You can download it at:
http://www.bvstools.com/spltool.html

It will convert to pdf, as well as email, send to IFS, FTP, etc..
etc...

Brad

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Patrick Townsend

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Feb 7, 2001, 4:12:20 PM2/7/01
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Net400 has a product that does this. http://www.net400.com
Patrick

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software and consulting services.

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Piet Francken

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Feb 8, 2001, 2:20:40 AM2/8/01
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The product Quick Press should do it.

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Rodney Johnson

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Feb 8, 2001, 10:26:00 AM2/8/01
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The emulator is not properly detecting the condition that would mark the end
of file. Make sure your emulator is at the latest PTF levels.

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David Fowle

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Feb 10, 2001, 5:51:29 AM2/10/01
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PDFingMailer can convert AS400 spooled-files (AFPDS & SCS) to PDF
files and e-mail the PDF via SMTP. PDFingMailer costs 399.00 USD and
runs on a Windows PC connected to your AS400 via TCP/IP.

See http://www.pdfing.com for details.

Regards

David Fowle

Richard Schoen

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Feb 10, 2001, 9:59:42 AM2/10/01
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Our company has both Native AS/400 and PC-based PDF Report Converters. In
fact our PC-based conveter can be used in conjunction with Adobe Distiller.

For more information check out our web site or contact me directly via
email.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
"The AS/400 Report and Data Delivery Experts"
Email: ric...@rjssoft.com
Web Site: http://www.rjssoft.com

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Ash Bowers

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Feb 12, 2001, 10:21:01 AM2/12/01
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Well if you don't mind using a solution that isn't 100% AS/400, you
could always install Adobe Acrobat on a PC and use a Client Access
Printer session. All you do then is print your spooled file to the
C/A printer, and set C/A to print to the PDFWriter. Works great for
us.


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Erik Filchner

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Feb 12, 2001, 4:53:53 PM2/12/01
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Hello

since a few weeks I am using the CVTSPLSTMF tool from the NEWS/400
magazine. (It's for free) You can create PDF; HTML and normal TXT files.
It works really good. You have the possibility to define your bookmarks within
the
PDF or which keyposition should be used to be a bookmark and so on. Just have
a look.

Bye Erik

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gdt

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Feb 14, 2001, 10:26:01 PM2/14/01
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Amen,

Works with both Distiller and PDF. Simply set one or the other as your
"printer driver" for the session, move your spool files to that outq, and
away she goes.
Works great for us too.

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ccc

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Feb 16, 2001, 3:39:30 PM2/16/01
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My configuration is AS/400 with V3R7 and PC with windows 98 (traditional
chinese version);
connection though TCP/IP, do you think if it is the OS version will cause
problem?
please give me some more suggestion.


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ccc

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Feb 16, 2001, 8:25:22 PM2/16/01
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First of all; thank you very much for your information. That's what I am
exactly doing in my machine;
My configration is AS/400 with V3R7 and I installed both Acrobat PDFWriter
and Distiller on my
PC connecting to AS/400 with TCP/IP. I also try to print the spooled file
to the C/A printer.
But I have to mannually hold the print job to get the PDF output. Can you

give me some more
suggestion.
"Ash Bowers" <abo...@email.co.anson.nc.us> ?????
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vossr...@gmail.com

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Aug 6, 2016, 11:34:25 PM8/6/16
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DRV Tech has a great inexpensive solution for converting spool files to PDF or Excel and optionally email called SpoolFlex. No programming required. Free trial WWW.drvtech.com/pdf-ibmi-iseries-as400
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